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    <body><![CDATA[Reviewed by Lauren Ashley for TeensReadToo.com<br/><br/>HOW TO (UN)CAGE A GIRL is a short collection of poetry for and about girls. Told in three parts, these poems deal with many facets of life that women must deal with, from being a teen to becoming an adult. This is a book about life: the ups a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38406756">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book because I once loved FLB, and here is one of her books that I haven't read, so of course I have to read it. But here it is, two stars. It's not that I can't appreciate good poetry, but mostly that the sort of angst, sorrow, mourning, lonely tragedy/difficulties of girlhood and woman...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80094609">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful poetry about the author's experience as a female, but widely applicable.  I don't know if I always related to it, but I'm strange.  I related to some of it and could imagine the rest.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This collection of poetry communicates how hard it can be to be a girl and difficult it is to love yourself sometimes. Good things happen, bad things happen, relationships develop and die; basically, life happens. A lot of the poems are beautifully descriptive; some, I just didn't get. It's obvious ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49491746">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was surprised to see that this was a three-part book of poems by Block, one of my favorite authors from middle school. Block’s Weetzie Bat novels really gave me hope for a society that was accepting and loving rather than bitter and cynical. The poems in her newest book, How to (Un)cage A Girl, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37291043">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Block's collection of poetry almost reads like a narrative, opening the floodgates of adolescence with 120 pages of verse. Her style is confessional, raw, and at times racy, but ultimately her work is refreshing. It's not the pinnacle of the poetic tradition, and it's certainly gimmicky, but conside...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69043215">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, so I tried to get through this book...twice.  Call it bad book ADD.  How to (Un)cage a Girl is the coming of age story of a girl struggling with an eating disorder.  I found the characteristics and thoughts of the girl to be cliché teenager and the fact that it was written in past tense from ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61921095">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[3 stars if you're a Block fan, 2-1/2 if you're not.  the poems about girls and women are pretty good, if uneven.  they just won't appeal to everyone.  the last one, &quot;forty-five for my daughter and my virtual daughters&quot;, I'd like to have embroidered as a gift for my daughter.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The enjoyment of poetry is highly subjective, and while this is probably not a collection for the ages, it's likely to be appreciated by the girls of today. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is Block's latest poetry book as far as I know. I read this on the way to State Drama competition. I loved it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know. Almost too coarse for my liking. But some of the later poems are beautiful.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed it!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a beautiful, haunting sad series of poems that truly captures &quot;growing pains&quot; at their most realistic.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sorry, but I just can't relate to any of the girls in these &quot;love&quot; poems.  There were a few individual poems that I liked, such as &quot;Vampire in the City of Lost&quot; and &quot;Forty-five Thoughts for My Daughter and My Virtual Daughters.&quot;  I wonder how many of these poems are aut...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33406278">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have a complicated history with FLB, on one hand she's written some of my most loved books and also some I deeply loathe. I didn't much care for this one at all. I can't tell if the poetry is fabulous because she wrote it or if it's saying something so new about girlhood that I missed it. <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34930105">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Coming of age Poetry. Wasn't expecting that. Still very well written.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love the Weetzie Bat novels and that whole tale.  This book is painfully bad though - like bad junior high poetry.  The only one I found at all tolerable was &quot;l.a. bacchantes&quot; and that was only because I could see liking it when I was a teenager.  The poem &quot;collage&quot; was so very...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34611909">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book.  While it is not great poetry, the themes resonated for me on a very personal level and I enjoyed it far more than I had anticipated I would.<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://satia.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-uncage-girl-by-francesca-lia.html" title="http://satia.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-uncage-girl-by-francesca-lia.html">http://satia.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book, but I was a little confused.  The poems read like the ones I wrote in high school.  Does that mean the poems I wrote in high school were good enough to be published?  Or are these poems published only because FLB wrote them?  ]]></body>
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